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Christina Macaluso Hammock leads the journalism department at Geneva School of Boerne in Boerne, Texas. After graduating from LSU with a BFA in studio art with a concentration in graphic design and minors in photography and advertising, she worked in design and advertising in Denver, Colorado.

In 2003, she began her own design studio, rsvp ink, specializing in invitation design. After moving to Texas in 2009, she revisited her love for photography in a professional way by opening her photo studio. Over time those businesses combined into what is now Christina M Hammock Photography + Design. After several years of volunteering her photography and design skills at Geneva, she began teaching in the journalism department as the yearbook adviser. Under her leadership, her staff has been nationally recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), Jostens and locally by the Interscholastic League Press Conference (ILPC) and Texas Association of Private & Parochial Schools (TAPPS). She also leads the high school photo team and for the 2020/2021 school year, she will add advising the high school’s magazine staff—producing a CSPA Crown Award winning quarterly magazine, as well as an annual literary magazine. When not producing those publications with her students, she works as an in-house designer for the school.

Paul Martinez was executive creative director for the travel + leisure brand and departures brand at Meredith Corporation, a media and marketing services corporation in New York City. He was named to AdWeek’s 2019 annual “Creative 100 List: The Most Fascinating People in Marketing, Media and Culture” and won a 2019 Ozzie Award for Best Typography.

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Mary is a UX designer based in Seattle, WA. After graduating from LSU in 2011 with a BFA in graphic design and a BA in political science, she’s been fortunate enough to travel to 23 countries on multiple continents and to hike hundreds of miles in beautiful Washington state.

Mary has worked as a front-end developer for CDK Global, a visual experience designer at Amazon.com, and is currently a user-experience designer at REI. She is passionate about accessibility design in the digital space, stewardship and activism related to increasing access to the outdoors, and using data to inform design solutions.

She has had the opportunity to work for clients such as the University of Washington, Yale University, Disney, Lucasfilm, T-Mobile, LEGO, Hasbro, La Roche-Posay, Lorac, Givenchy, Cadillac, Lexus, GMC, Buick, and Chevrolet.

She credits painting & drawing professors Ed Smith, Michael Crespo, and political theory professor Dustin Howes with having had a profound impact on her worldview from her time at LSU.

Marty is the IS Director of the San Antonio Development Center at H-E-B, the largest private grocery chain in the state of Texas. He leads an accelerated development team that coaches employees to focus on building a career in software engineering at the company not just a job. His team works on many of the 400+ applications that run every aspect of the grocery retail chain’s operations.

Prior to joining H-E-B, he spent 2.5 years as a Senior UX Manager at Rackspace, a cloud hosting company based in San Antonio, TX, leaving a software development team for customer-facing, self-service documentation. Before moving to Texas, Marty spent 17.5 years at DreamWorks Animation, where he held several different roles and earned over 20 animated feature film credits including the Academy Award® winning “Shrek”, “Madagascar”, “Kung Fu Panda”, “Over the Hedge”, “Megamind”, “Turbo”, “Bee Movie”, “Antz”, “SharkTale”, “How to Train You Dragon” and many more.